Carten Valves Quotes & Sayings

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different. — Guy Laliberte

You didn't even know my name, I thought. You're just repeating what he said. — David Levithan

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out. — Flip Wilson

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world - everything is hidden in you. — Hildegard Of Bingen

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying. — Pat Paulsen

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor. — Bryant McGill

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. — Charles Spurgeon

In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and it is unlikely that there will ever be another president stretched so thinly by a determination to use great power to do just that. Lyndon Johnson was a full-service president who had at his disposal an alignment of political resources, economic resources, international resources, and military resources unmatched in the annals of presidential history. The problem is that in a full-service presidency, where no interest of political significance is denied a modicum of legitimacy, resources turn fickle; the exercise of power consumes authority. Committed to a wholly affirmative result, Johnson could not rest content to let anyone carry the brunt of change. — Stephen Skowronek

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. — F.L. Lucas

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything. — AVA.

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. — Janice Dickinson

West didn't want her to get hurt anymore. He wanted her to let go. He wanted her to appreciate her life. To know he loved her. All these things sounded so stupid to him when he imagined saying them and he knew she didn't want to hear them anyway. She wanted to hear one thing. — Francesca Lia Block